Assignment for schools: Increase teacher diversity
Jan. 9—For most of her career in Portland Public Schools, Julia Hazel was either the only teacher of color or one of just a handful in the schools where she…
Jan. 9—For most of her career in Portland Public Schools, Julia Hazel was either the only teacher of color or one of just a handful in the schools where she…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City has sworn in a historic new city council where the majority of members identify as LGBTQ, and most are people of color.…
Should descendants of enslaved African Americans receive reparations? What could those reparations look like? Earl Lewis A panel will tackle those questions from 12:30-2 p.m. Jan. 17 during the online…
Evanston’s Reparations Committee approved nonprofit group Community Partners for Affordable Housing to distribute funds to the first 16 recipients of the Restorative Housing Program at a Thursday meeting. Under the…
Dawn Basciano’s ancestors arrived five generations ago in Coloma, California, as enslaved people, forced to leave behind an infant son enslaved to another family in Missouri. Those ancestors, Nancy and Peter…
The American case for reparations can draw encouragement and examples from Canada. The federal government just set aside a huge sum – $40bn – to compensate the victims and relatives…
PROVIDENCE — Mayor Jorge Elorza has unveiled a proposal for spending more than $123 million in American Rescue Plan Act money, aiming to allocate large amounts on housing, reparations and replacement…
When Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prizein Literature last October, becoming the first Black writer to win the award since Toni Morrison in 1993, his books shot to the top…
ust before Thanksgiving in Philadelphia, dozens of residents gathered on a basketball court in the city’s Lawncrest section to mourn the loss of Jessica Covington. Thirty-two years old and seven months…
Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit play two new mothers from very different backgrounds in the Spanish director’s latest study in female interiority. The title Parallel Mothers could apply to a number of…